The sound of America has changed
On the morning TV news there was a story about an Asian woman who had locked her baby in her SUV yesterday in the parking lot of a Costco in New Jersey. The temperature outside was over 95F. Shoppers in the parking lot heard the baby crying in the car, which was locked, and called the police. The police arrived quickly, broke open the car to remove the baby who was by now soaking wet from sweat. A few minutes later the mother arrived with a shopping cart full of purchases and another toddler in tow. When she realized the police had just rescued her baby because of her own negligence she kept saying ‘I sorry, I sorry’ with sincerity. But the crowd in the parking lot screamed at her that being sorry was not enough since she could have killed her baby. They turned into an angry mob. Part of the problem here was the language barrier. I did not get the impression that this woman spoke English well. That means she may not have been ...